What's the difference between ballyhoo and grand?

Ballyhoo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sandbech, McMorris and Winter X Games champion Max Parrot were among those who threw the much-ballyhooed triple cork, which is three head-over-heels flips considered way more dangerous and athletic and presumed to be the must-have trick to win the first Olympic gold in this sport’s history.
  • (2) It also opens a window into Trump’s much ballyhooed Twitter account, which has served as an aggressive outlet for the Republican frontrunner’s views, where he often retweets supporters.
  • (3) He went to Hamburg knowing the much-ballyhooed encounter with his US counterpart was a “win-win”, as Andrei Kolesnikov, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Centre, put it to the New York Times .
  • (4) The Giants, so far, have DOMINATED EVERY aspect of the game, from pitching to fielding to hitting, just like they dominated the much ballyhooed Texas Rangers with the "invincible" Cliff Lee and the messiah Josh Hamilton in the 2010 World Series.
  • (5) The ref wags his finger at both players but decides against showing any cards, probably because he didn't have a clear view of the ballyhoo.
  • (6) 2.37pm BST Here's an animation produced by Nasa explaining its mission to capture an asteroid: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.36pm BST A group of Nasa directors discusses the agency's much-ballyhooed plan to capture an asteroid and then mine it for research.
  • (7) However his much ballyhooed $475 golden iPhone case, the foto.sosho , produced by his wearable tech company, i.am+, was less successful.
  • (8) Read more The former vice-presidential candidate announced her endorsement of the Republican frontrunner at a much ballyhooed event which took place inside a heated barn on the Iowa State University campus.
  • (9) The problem with the much-ballyhooed and thoroughly underwhelming changes to food labeling is that these modifications are not only minor and still subject to a long rulemaking process, but, on the issue of portion size, these proposals only affect 27 of the 157 product categories subject to portion rules.
  • (10) So far this seems like full spectrum domination, the same way they dominated the much ballyhooed Cliff Lee, Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series.

Grand


Definition:

  • (superl.) Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.
  • (superl.) Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignifled, or noble (said of persons); majestic, splendid, magnificent, or sublime (said of things); as, a grand monarch; a grand lord; a grand general; a grand view; a grand conception.
  • (superl.) Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name; as, a grand lodge; a grand vizier; a grand piano, etc.
  • (superl.) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (2) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (4) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
  • (5) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
  • (6) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
  • (7) Individual tests and batteries of tests should be standardized, employ positive controls, generate results capable of quantitative analyses that may make dichotomous classification as "positive" and "negative" obsolete, be interpreted in light of mechanisms of action, and be cost-effective on a grand scale.
  • (8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
  • (9) The authors report a resurgence of this disease during the last years, with a 5 human cases per 100,000 annual prevalence and a 6 per cent of rate death, the most active part of mediterranean area appears to be the region of Grand-Kabylie.
  • (10) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
  • (11) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
  • (12) The incidence of grand multiparity was only 4.7%; however, 25% were less than 30 years old.
  • (13) "More than most British players, I have been asked about it many times when I got close to winning grand slams before.
  • (14) Hawking's latest comments go beyond those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design , in which he asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe.
  • (15) Letterman was summoned to a grand jury hearing later yesterday at which he gave his side of the story.
  • (16) Emergent management is imperative for convulsive tonic-clonic (grand mal) status epilepticus, but there are nonconvulsive types of status epilepticus in which the problem is more one of correct diagnosis than emergent management.
  • (17) The film-maker had been due to present his new film Venus in Fur , which stars his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, at an outdoor screening in Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Thursday.
  • (18) Among 50 geriatric inpatients (average age 79) with late-onset epilepsy (average duration two years), 28 had grand mal attacks, 12 had focal attacks, seven had both.
  • (19) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
  • (20) Photograph: Instagram Callander, who was studying health and social care at Runshaw College in Leyland, Lancashire, sent a Twitter message to Grande on Sunday, saying: “SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU TOMORROW.” She had previously posted a photograph of herself with the singer taken in 2015 on her Instagram account.